xi, 228 pages : 23 cm

Applying the insights of Mikhail Bakhtin and recent French critical theorists to the concept of hierarchies in Western society, Stallybrass and White explore the symbolic polarities of the exalted and the base. The authors compare high and low discourse in a variety of domains, and discover that, in every case, the polarities structure and depend upon each other and, in certain instances, interpenetrate to produce political change. -- Molyblog

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index

The fair, the pig, authorship -- The grotesque body and the Smithfield muse: authorship in the eighteenth century -- The city: the sewer, the gaze and the contaminating touch -- Below stairs: the maid and the family romance -- Bourgeois hysteria and the carnivalesque

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